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Archive for December, 2010

Dazzled and Frazzled’s End of Year Review

12.30.2010 · Posted in Uncategorized

Although 2010 didn’t herald any great advancement of gifted education in Ireland, it was a watershed year for Dazzled and Frazzled! 2010 marked the year when we found our way to be a voice for gifted learners in Ireland. In January we took part in th... ...

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Where Have All The Passionate Physics Teachers Gone?

12.14.2010 · Posted in Teachers, science

This excellent piece first appeared yesterday on the Guardian Science Blog. It is written by Alom Shaha, a physics teacher in the UK, and he asks simply "where have all the passionate physics teachers gone" and pleas for more physicists to become teach... ...

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Happy Days are here again for languages!

12.12.2010 · Posted in Vodcasting

As we all know, singing a song can be a great way of retaining vocabulary, reinforcing sentence structure and hooking young people into language learning. This year's crop of trainee teachers in MFL at Liverpool Hope University have been doing... ...

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Using Images in Teaching: A Quick Guide

12.07.2010 · Posted in Blog, copyright, images, multimedia, visual learning

It might be cliché, but it is nevertheless true. A picture speaks a thousand words. How We Learn This is of course not to say that words are less important than pictures. But it’s useful to remind ourselves that our brains are essentially twofold, made up of the left hemisphere, which is often described as ...

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SCC English Shortlisted for Three Edublog Awards

12.06.2010 · Posted in Awards

Our esteemed English department colleagues over at SCC English has been shortlisted in three categories in this year's Edublog Awards. The winners are decided by a public vote and voting is now open! SCC English is shortlisted in the following categor... ...

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Easy Grade Pro

Easy Grade Pro is a suite of software, from Orbis Software designed for educators at all levels and institutions who want powerful but easy to use tools to manage their student results, homework, attendance, efforts and other information. This suite c... ...

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Snow Days!

12.02.2010 · Posted in Light Hearted Moment

I must admit, I am feeling particularly lucky to be teaching in St. Columba's College this week. While the snow does mean that getting in and out of the college is practically impossible (given its elevated position on the foot of the Dublin Mountains)... ...

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#UKSnowDepth

12.01.2010 · Posted in #UKSnow, #UKSnowDepth, Mapping, Maths, data, geography, maps, science, snow

The snow in the UK has really kicked in this week and many, many schools are closed – I thought we could take the opportunity to create some learning resources related to the conditions. I discovered this list of snow depths but then thought perhaps we could simply crowd-source some accurate data from colleagues across ...

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